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The Employee Experience: Coaching to Change Role

Coaching to change role can help you in multiple forms of changing role:

  • Sideways move to a similar role in a different function
  • Individual Contributor to first time manager
  • Managing others to managing a function
  • Managing a function to managing a business

Coaching can help at different stages of the decision-making journey.  For example, you may know that you are not happy in your current role, but don’t know what you would prefer.  Coaching can help you to articulate what a good fit might look like for you, so that as you search for new positions, you’ll know which roles to apply for that would be fulfilling for you.

You may want to get promoted, but need some help to figure out how to be recognised as being ready for that step up.  Coaching can help you to think through what is expected of you and how you might go about demonstrating the skills and behaviours needed; and who you need to impress.

You may already have the new role, and want to make a good first impression – not to mention transitioning our of your old role well.  Coaching can give you the time and space to identify how to do both of those as well as how you want to be.  And if you are moving up in the organisation, pay attention to what you need to jettison that made you successful in the past, but that is no longer needed at your new level.

So the question is, do you choose your manager as your coach, an internal coach or an external coach?  As we said in a previous post, it really depends upon honest you feel you can be.  The more honest you can be, the more you will gain learn about yourself so that you can make the best decisions for you.  Of course, you’ll want to have conversations with your manager about his/her expectations, to get clear about what your outcomes are, but that will be a different role compared to coaching.

You might also think about choosing a coach who understands the psychology of transitions – what goes on inside us when we are making a decision to stay or to move; leaving that role behind; the feeling of uncertainty; and then starting a new role – and how to harness that to move us forward.

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